Dieketsing Mnisi portrays the character of MaNtuli on SABC1 telenovela called Skeem Saam. The telenovela airs on weekdays at 18:30.

 

MaNtuli is a mother of three, two girls and one boy. She also has a grandson. MaNtuli raised her children as a single mother. MaNtuli is originally from Kwa-Zulu Natal but now she’s based in Limpopo in a town called Turfloop. MaNtuli has been in Turfloop for many years and it took her about two decades to go to Kwa-Zulu Natal. And she went back to her home town for a reason, she was handicapped and her brother decided to take her there so that she can recover.

MaNtuli is a strong woman who is very opinionated, and once she made up her mind about something it’s hard for her to change her mind. Even her kids know that their opinion doesn’t matter when it comes to their mother. She is a very strict mother and she doesn’t listen to them. When her grandson Clement came out out about being gay MaNtuli wasn’t happy and she made life hard for Clement. She kept thinking that Clement wanted to date a sugar daddy and it made Clement think that his grandmother is homophobic.

Clement tried to commit suicide last week and that became an eye opener for MaNtuli. She and her children had a meeting and she asked them to tell her what they dislike about her. They all said their pieces, what they said made her cry so bitterly. She apologized to her children and she even promised to change her behavior and her parenting style.

Viewers of the telenovela were amazed by this they didn’t think that a day would come where MaNtuli would apologize to her children. This made a lot of the viewers happy and some even claim that they cried when they saw this happening.